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Internet History In Pictures
prostoalex writes "Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities? The Faces in front of the Monitors features the Internet history in pictures. See the legendary BBN IMP team, Linus naked and drinking beer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and other luminaries."
I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/
I just checked their website, and they didn't have my personal favorite...
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Some names (and photos) seem to be missing.
... and many many others. One more than a few occassions siblings were involved - Judy and Deborah Estrin, and the Lyons brothers come to mind.
I'd suggest John Romkey (author of PC/IP and one of the two original Internet toasters), Phil Karn (KA9Q), Louis Pouzin (I probably misspelled that), Don Davies. Mike St. Johns, Jake Feinler, Bob Braden, Milo, Jun Murai, Marshall Rose, Dave Mills, Dave Farber, Dave Clark, Jerry Saltzer, Noel Chiappa, Steve Casner, Dan Lynch, Radia Pearlman
Carl Malamud's 1992 book, "Exploring the Internet" has a lot of anecdotes and a few photos.
>Then he maded a new protocol NetBIOS *snip*
TOTAL BULLSHIT. Bill Gates had nothing to do with the creation of NetBIOS. The NetBIOS interface was developed by Sytec Inc. (now Hughes LAN Systems) for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1983. The original version of Windows, released in November 1983, had no network support. Microsoft didn't even provide integrated network support in Windows until the release of Windows for Workgroups in October 1992. Before the release of Windows for Workgroups you had to use non-Microsoft network protocol software to network Windows boxes.
In short, SMB was borrowed from IBM. Here (near the top of the page) is a brief history.
Didn't they have something to do with DHCP?
I got in an argument with a windows adminstrator at work a few years ago about this. He'd always tell me how wonderful Microsoft is and cite things that had nothing to do with MS. One day I told him I was taking away their DHCP server because they weren't doing much with it and we needed to use it for the Unix servers. He told me that Windows would do it better because DHCP is a Microsoft invention. I pointed him to the standard and asked him to show me the word ``Microsoft.'' Nothing, of course.
This particular RFC (3004) you're referencing is regards to a new option to be added to DHCP. That they'll extend a protocol is not news.
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You sir are rather ignorant, I assume that is why the internet runs on IPX or UDP, LOL. Nope, it seems that the TCP/IP (hint the last letters IP are for Internet Protocol) is what the internet runs over. Maybe TCP-IP seems to be a "small" detail to you, but unless you come up with something better... I rather keep Vinton Cerf in his original place and inventing the protocol that the internet uses mostly to transfer data is a rather important achievement. In case you did not know it, it also happens that it was Cerf (together with Kahn) who coined the term "internet" on a '74 paper on TCP. So let's see he came up with the protocol, and the name. Is that just not enough for you?
This is not even close to the apples to oranges comparison you tried to accomplish. Oh, well it is not like ignorance ever stopped anyone from posting on slashdot.
Yep the site was slashdotted, my poor little 5MB ds3 wasn't quite enough to handle it. BTW I'm the host not the site owner.
Check the mirrors folks its a good site!
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yes, that's right, a goatse.cx post that's +1 informative!